Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause is leaving the Netflix reality series after nine seasons.
In an interview with Bustle published Friday, Stause announced she would be departing the real estate docuseries centered on the Oppenheim Group, a luxury real estate brokerage in Los Angeles, that debuted on the streamer in 2019.
“I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past. I have to be honest — having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down,” Stause said.
She added that “Jesus Christ himself” couldn’t get her to come back for season 10 and alleged that Selling Sunset creator Adam DiVello has been calling and texting “100 times a day.”
Netflix did not comment.
“I’ve gotten to a place where I don’t need the show financially,” she said. “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment, because it’s no longer good for my mental health.”
Though Stause has been in the middle of various conflicts throughout the show, this season a key storyline centered on Stause and former best friend Emma Hernan having conflicts over Hernan’s boyfriend, whom Stause has disapproved of for various statements she says he has made.
“He compared being nonbinary to having a mental illness,” Stause alleges. (Her partner, the musician G-Flip, is nonbinary). “He constantly posts anti-trans stuff… He thinks it’s too woke if you don’t sing the N-word in songs. He posted something the other day, with a gun in view, saying he wants to ‘sue [me for lying] my dick off.’”
Hernan disputed some of the claims on the Selling Sunset season nine reunion.
Stause found issue with what was edited this season explaining, “I get it, they want to make a light show. And if I was doing a show with less problematic people, I can totally see their point.”
“With Emma, I just look like an overbearing friend,” she added of the show’s editing. “But there are so many things that would’ve completely vindicated me and my opinion, and they left all of it out.”
Stause also noted she has experienced Hernan and her boyfriend breaking up, which led Hernan to tell her “horrific things that he would say to her, that he would do.” She added, “He thought it was funny to say, ‘If you ever do that again, I’ll beat you.’ Who jokes about that? It’s not funny.”
Despite announcing her exit, Stause says she wishes “them the best” should the series continue. “If they do do another one, by then, I may not watch it,” she admitted. “I don’t know. But I have no ill will toward the show. The show has given me so many opportunities, and I don’t want to be bitter about it, even though I’m leaving not in the way I would’ve loved.”
As for the reunion, in which castmembers gathered to reflect on the ninth season, Stause said she felt herself withdraw during the taping but felt reassured it would be the last time. “After so many hours, I felt like, ‘Sit here, get through it. You’re not a quitter, but you never have to do this again. And I promise you, to your soul, you won’t,’” she said.
